[June 2000 journal entry]
While having my cast changed at Vanderbilt’s Orthopedic Clinic (tendon and ligament repair), I heard in the next room the nurse say to a patient “You have a purpose” in response to the patient telling her how his broken leg resulted from being run over by a car. The nurse’s comment parallels the interpretation given to Hitler’s surviving the 20 July 1944 attempt on his life. Any ‘God’ language that has such elasticity in meaning must be rejected.